Her sins, which were many, were forgiven, all forgiven, five hundred though they were! A big debt, but Jesus “paid it all.” The Gospel of Jesus is a Gospel for sinners, and not for Pharisees; therefore the woman was saved, and the Pharisee was not. Jesus said, “I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.” “The Son of Man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.” Simon knew the woman, but he did not know Jesus. He knew she was a sinner,—a great sinner; but he did not know the greater Savior who was sitting that day at his table, with power to forgive sins, and to save the chiefest of sinners.

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